What goes in my bins and boxes?

Recycling your food waste

In May 2017 we introduced a policy of no food waste in your black bin. Instead, you must put all food waste in your food waste bin.

We are currently placing advisory stickers on black bins. These stickers are in conjunction with reminder letters residents should also have received. These stickers are not warnings and are only to advise residents that we don’t accept food waste in black bins and to please use your brown food waste bin instead.

Tips to help you increase your recycling:

Remove all food packaging before putting the waste in your food waste bin

Remember to rinse and recycle the packaging, if possible

Only use the food waste bags we supply - they decompose with the food waste and we supply them free of charge

If you need more food waste bags, please tie your last bag or tag to your food waste bin.

We will check black bins for food waste and if any is found in the first instance we will put a warning sticker on your bin as a reminder. These checks will start after residents receive their food waste bins or caddies.

If you continue to put food waste in your black bin after the first warning, we will place a second warning sticker on your bin and send you a letter. On the third occasion we will put a tag on your bin that will mean it won’t be collected.

You will need to remove the food waste from your black bin and put it in your food waste bin to ensure your black bin is emptied on the next scheduled collection day. We will not make any alternative arrangements to collect your black bin.

If you need more food waste bags, please tie your last bag or tag to your food waste bin. You can always collect rolls of food waste bags from any of our main household recycling centres.

If you don’t have a food waste bin or a kitchen food waste caddy, you can: